The conditions of declaring income and assets by presidential candidates should be toughened to avoid economic dishonesty and corruption, thinks political expert Anatol Taranu. “The special commission for the supervision of the presidential election is authorized to formulate certain conditions. We can offer our expert opinions, but it's up to the commission to decide”, said Taranu. Asked to describe the procedure, the commission's head MP Tudor Deliu said all candidates will need to fill in a standard declaration form, like the one used by all the public office holders, to report incomes earned both at the workplace and from other activities, as well as assets. “We can not invent more conditions or rely on other legislation than the one used for public office holders”, stated Tudor Deliu. According to constitutional law expert Corneliu Gurin, the three key laws that regulate the field – the Law on verifying public office holders, the Law on the status of public office holders, and the Public Office Law – are not homogenized and are applied selectively. He suggested that it wasn't right to have the Chairman of the Supreme Court, for example, checked by the Intelligence Service under the Law on verifying public office holders, and not to do the same thing in relation to a person aspiring for the country's top job. Gurin thinks a presidential candidate should be verified thoroughly, including in respect of relatives, previous political allegiance and criminal record. “A presidential candidate should be clean as a whistle if we don't want surprises later on”, said Corneliu Gurin.